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![(Pictured left to right) Colette Monroe, Policy Advisor, Office of the Governor, U.S. Virgin Islands; Tricee Limtiaco, Special Assistant to the Governor of Guam; Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Esther Kia’aina, Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga, Director, American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources; Richard Seman, Secretary, CNMI Department of Lands and Natural Resources. [photo: USDOI-OIA]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/USTISCC%20n%20governors.jpg?itok=OQjXpbjy "(Pictured left to right) Colette Monroe, Policy Advisor, Office of the Governor, U.S. Virgin Islands; Tricee Limtiaco, Special Assistant to the Governor of Guam; Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Esther Kia’aina, Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga, Director, American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources; Richard Seman, Secretary, CNMI Department of Lands and Natural Resources. [photo: USDOI-OIA]")
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Esther Kia’aina today met with Governors’ representatives from the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands for the first meeting of the U.S. Territories...
![Disney Producer Osnat Shurer outside of Apollo Cinemas in Apia Samoa, for the private screening of Disney’s animated film, “Moana”. Shurer was with Pixar at one time and was also the producer for “The Incredibles” and then moved to Disney where she assisted with the creating of “Frozen”, but her first film — where she was into the development — was “Zootopia”. [Photo: JL]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Moana%20crew.jpg?itok=JjMW6zGx "Disney Producer Osnat Shurer outside of Apollo Cinemas in Apia Samoa, for the private screening of Disney’s animated film, “Moana”. Shurer was with Pixar at one time and was also the producer for “The Incredibles” and then moved to Disney where she assisted with the creating of “Frozen”, but her first film — where she was into the development — was “Zootopia”. [Photo: JL]")
Apia, SAMOA — “Samoa is a very special place to us, for so many reasons... There’s a lot of the fa’asamoa that was borrowed for the movie,” says Ron Clements, who is one of the duo of directors for Disney’s blockbuster animated movie — “Moana”. John Musker, the other half of the duo-director team,...
“We ask you to open your minds with the possibilities that can transform our existing city into an enjoyable and functional place that is well thought out and designed,” said Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi during the launching of the Apia’s Waterfront Plan last week. The plan...
PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO VIOLENCE IN SAMOA
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s Ombudsman’s office — National Human Rights Institution of Samoa has launched a national public inquiry into family violence. This coincides with Samoa’s “Human Rights Day” that takes place on December 10 annually.
This year’s Human Rights...
More than ten individuals with Samoan names are among the 37 defendants charged under six indictments for a variety of drug trafficking offenses and three of those defendants are charged with firearm offenses, according to a list released yesterday by the federal government as well as in a news...
Apia, SAMOA — Although more than 200 criminal charges has been filed against the police commissioner the Samoa Attorney General’s office has yet to finalized them and this was revealed during the status hearing for suspended Police Commissioner Fuiavailili Egon Keil in the Supreme Court earlier...
![Members of the Samoa Fa’afafine Association with Samoa’s Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, who is also the Patron and father figure for SFA during Fa’afafine week in Samoa —a first time event. [Photo: JL]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/SFA%20week_0338.jpg?itok=medP0o7b "Members of the Samoa Fa’afafine Association with Samoa’s Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, who is also the Patron and father figure for SFA during Fa’afafine week in Samoa —a first time event. [Photo: JL]")
Apia, SAMOA — “Human Rights, gender equity, cultural views and HIV&AIDS Prevention” were among the issues that will be discussed during the Fa’afafine Week in Samoa, a first time event according to Samoa Fa’afafine Association (SFA) President So’oalo To’oto’oali’i Roger Stanley. Held at the...
![Newly crowned Miss Pacific Islands, Anne Dunn during her interview at the pageant’s awards ceremony, who said she is looking forward to what the year has in store for her in representing not only Fiji but also the Pacific as a whole. [Photo: JL]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Miss%20Pac%20Is_0144.jpg?itok=Q9j9nbkT "Newly crowned Miss Pacific Islands, Anne Dunn during her interview at the pageant’s awards ceremony, who said she is looking forward to what the year has in store for her in representing not only Fiji but also the Pacific as a whole. [Photo: JL]")
Apia, Samoa — Empowering women in the Pacific is one aspect of life that newly crowned Miss Pacific Islands, Anne Dunn is passionate about and in doing so, that is one of the first projects that she’ll be working on upon returning home. Held in Tuanaimato, the 30th Miss Pacific Islands pageant saw...
A beloved Auckland-based minister has lost his battle to remain in New Zealand, despite the Samoan church claiming he's the only man fit for his job.
Iosia Pati, 59, and his wife Ruta, 57, have run a Samoan methodist church in south Auckland since 2011; their lawyer said that without them, the...
![ioux-Oglala Latoka Tongan artist Juliana Brown Eyes-Clifford Kaho says protesters young and old have been sprayed with water cannons in temperatures which are below freezing. [Photo: AFP/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Scott Olson via RNZI]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Dakota%20access%20web.jpg?itok=cI4k-nwf "ioux-Oglala Latoka Tongan artist Juliana Brown Eyes-Clifford Kaho says protesters young and old have been sprayed with water cannons in temperatures which are below freezing. [Photo: AFP/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Scott Olson via RNZI]")
Protests are ongoing against a controversial oil pipeline project in North Dakota and a Native American artist says the Pacific should take note to prevent similar projects from occurring elsewhere.
The $US3.7 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) will run 1870km through Iowa, Illinois, and North...